“21” – Maitland McDonagh reviews

March 27, 2008 Maitland McDonagh

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Loosely based on the real-life exploits of a team of MIT math geeks who used a sophisticated card-counting system to win millions at Las Vegas’ blackjack tables, Robert Luketic’s movie is a predictable moral tale enacted by blandly pretty young things who bear little resemblance to the average brainiac. Read more>>

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Maitland McDonagh

Formerly TVGuide.com's senior movies editor/reviewer, Maitland McDonagh now has her own site, Miss FlickChick.com, and freelances for Film Comment, Time Out NY and other publications. She has written four books -- Broken Mirrors Broken Minds: The Dark Dreams of Dario Argento, Filmmaking on the Fringe, The 50 Most Erotic Films of All Time and Movie Lust -- and contributed to many others, including Film Out of Bounds, Fantasy Females, The Last Great American Picture Show and Exile Cinema. Read McDonagh's recent artilces below. For her Women On Film archive, type "Maitland McDonagh" into the Search Box (upper right corner of screen).